Is this a fish market!?

Was this phrase just a thing from where I grew up, or is it an international calling of teachers when they witness a noisy classroom?

 

Pretty international, just different phrasing. In Dutch for instance you can call a loud female a 'viswijf' which is pretty much a fish-broad or something.

 

I can't recall a term used for a noisy classroom in America...But I know that messy areas are called pig sties, nothing to do with fish tho..

 

In Dominican Republic they use yo called "gallinero" meaning the place where you raise chicken

 

Can confirm, not an American thing. Or at least, never been uttered by any of my teachers.

 

*zooms over to nom fishies* … *finds no fishies to nom* *disappointed*

 

I think my teacher just said "is this a market?" Instead of just fish market.. since our nite market are more louder and hectic than fish market.

 

I never heard of it....

But where there are fish... there are...

 

CAT

 

never heard of it before

we don't even have fish markets in my town lmao

maybe a farmers' market... but that really isn't loud

 

An apt description~and I've heard the phrase before

 

I don't think I have ever heard my teacher use that phrase before. One of my teachers use to say: "女 三人 寄れば 姦しい(おんな さんにん よれば かしましい" whenever the same group of girls keeps disrupting the class though I don't remember what the teacher say when everyone is noisy.

人(ひと) —– Person, Man, Human being(Hito)
三(さん) —– Three(san)
女(おんな) —– Woman(Onna)
寄(よる) —– To approach, to visit, to gather(Yo/Yoru)
姦しい(かしましい) —– Noisy or boisterous(Kashimashii)

Translation: "When three women gather, it is noisy"

 

My teachers would say "Is this a zoo?!" and proceed to call us monkeys

This was in UAE (we usually had indian/arab teachers)

 

Pretty Indonesian. My teacher even made a pun "sahut saluangan (seluang or rasbora fish = seruangan or a room)" which can be translated as "a whole room of fish shouting over each other".

 

It's the preferred expression in India, though personally I like 'menagerie' better.

 

I always felt it was a classic Indian thing. Or at least a third world thing due to the existence of bazaars.

 

Not fish market but "market" only.
In my native tongue, "para namang palengke dito."



My place usually put everything in a place but categorized. So its really noisy wherever you are.
Like a long ass warehouse with the wet market at the front or middle. Usually dry market are found either at the end or at the sidestreet.

 

My moms canadian and when students in her classes (UK now) get noisy she asks if somebody left the barn door open or if they were raised in a barn (farm girl origins). no fish though

 

nah depend on place
the common across whole country is as noisy as market
fish market mostly on near river or beach place~ iirc there one or two place the proverb is bird market, some replace it with zoo so nope~

 

Well true. My class had too many titles whether it's zoo, fish market, jungle, any place that produce noises.